Once Lust had chained Ed to the wall again, she said, "We need you to be in the right condition to do alchemy, and since we need your arm detached from you while you reside here, we'll have to get your automail mechanic to reattach your arm when we're ready to start."

"Don't drag Winry into this!" Ed spat. His ankle still hurt like hell, and his shoulder was still bleeding, lightly. Lust grabbed his chin sharply, and pulled his head up so that he was looking her in the eyes. She dug into his skin with her sharp nails, and drew blood.

"Edward, it's all part of the plan. Don't you think that we'd have more control over you if we had two hostages? You are very easy to manipulate, you know. All we need is to take people who are close to you hostage. It's simple, really. Oh, and may I remind you that if you put up any kind of fight or resistance at any time from now until we have the stone in our hands, we will, in fact, kill your brother. Envy is off right now getting your mechanic, disguised as you." She released his chin, and shot her nail out, piercing Ed's left shoulder, once again. She had created a new puncture, which bled even more than the other one. Ed sucked in his breath, and glared.

"You may want to know that we'll be leaving this dump as soon as your mechanic is delivered here. We'll be headed off to that village, and it will be there that you're mechanic will fix you, and you will then do the alchemy. Understood?" Lust asked.

Edward turned pale and stared at the ground, as Lust left. He couldn't just take the lives of innocent people to help the homunculus. But he had to cooperate with them or his brother and Winry would pay the price. Are we really trapped this time? he thought, Will we really have to do what they want? Is there any way out of this?


The phone rang and Winry answered it, "Rockbell automail, how may we help you?"

"Winry? Is that you? This is Ed", the voice at the other end of the line said.

"Duh it's me Ed. Who did you think it was? Now, what do you need?"

"Sorry, I was just making sure that it was you. Well, if it's not too much trouble, I kinda need you to come out to Central, to fix up my automail. I got into a fight, and it got smashed up and taken off. You'll need to reattach it."

"WHAT? YOU BROKE IT AGAIN?!?!! I NEED TO REATTACH IT?? AND YOU NEED ME TO MAKE ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TRIP????"

"Jeez, Winry. I'm sorry. If it's too much trouble then..."

"No, no. I'll be there as soon as I can. But you'd better not tell me you're in the hospital again! And you'd better be paying lots, cause trips like these are expensive."

"So... you're not mad anymore?"

"OF COURSE I'M STILL MAD! But, it can't be helped. And you could always make it up to me by taking me on a shopping spree, afterwards!"

"Sure... see you soon then?"

"Yes. Goodbye."

Envy hung up the phone. What an awkward conversation, he thought. At least everything was going as planned. Two hostages! That way, Ed will do what they want him to for sure.


Sometime later, Envy, disguised as Ed, and Sloth, disguised as Al, met Winry at the train station. She ran up to him, glaring at him and pouting.

"Where's your arm? Don't tell me I have to build it all from scratch again!" she shouted.

"No, it's back at the hotel. Now come on, hurry up! I want this reattached as soon as possible", he said, tugging on her arm.

"So demanding!" Winry muttered.

They walked down an empty sidewalk, where no one could see them, Envy/Ed's hold still strong on Winry's arm. "You can let go now", Winry exclaimed. "You're making me uncomfortable, and you're squeezing so hard it hurts."

Envy/Ed turned to look at her, without slowing down or letting go, and grinned evilly. Winry suddenly became very fearful, and tried to tug her arm out of his grasp, put he held tighter, pressing his nails into her skin so hard that it broke the skin and she began to bleed.

She yelped in pain and cried out, "Ed, what the hell is wrong with you?" When she didn't get an answer, she turned to look at Sloth/Al, who was following behind them. "Al, tell your brother to stop! You haven't said anything to me at all so far. Tell him to let go of me! Al!" she screamed. She shuddered, as Sloth/Al ignored her.

"What's wrong with you two?" she yelled. Then she noticed that Ed's right leg had automail, when in reality, it was his left leg that was made of automail. She gasped and cried out, "You're imposters! Let me go! Where are the real Ed and Al? Somebody help me!"

There was no one around to hear her screams. Envy/Ed chuckled, "You're a smart girl."

Suddenly, a car pulled up to the sidewalk, and Ed/Envy stuffed a screaming Winry in the back seat, and then it drove off. "Come on Sloth", Envy said when the car was out of sight. "We'd better go where Mustang can see us, so he won't suspect that Ed or Al are missing. The plan will be carried out very soon, so we just have to stay in these stupid disguises for a little while longer."